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Responding to BDS Turkey's request, Kadıköy Municipality Council canceled the “sister city” protocol with the Israeli city of Petah Tikva.

Some 224 people were detained in the investigation. The suspects are charged with "taking and giving bribes in an organized manner."

The İstanbul 3rd Administrative Court has cancelled the “Grand Mosque” project to be undertaken by the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization upon the request of the Presidency of Religious Affairs in Kadıköy district in the Anatolian side of İstanbul.

Animal lover and sculptor Seval Şahin has begun work on the statue that is to be erected for Tombili in the neighborhood where the cat lived. “The cat in the next-door studio is a little chubby too. He modelled for me,” Şahin said.

A positive response has come from Kadıköy Municipality for the petition launched requesting Tombili's statue to be erected in the neighborhood in Kadıköy where he lived.

Kadıköy Mayor Aykurt Nuhoğlu has replied to reactions against banners hung for International Women’s Day: “I don’t think it does any harm to them. May they not be interested in people’s expressing themselves”.

Republican People’s Party Vice Chairman Veli Ağbaba told bianet that around 100 municipalities administered by his party have now recognized cemevis as temples.